in the other direction of what they gave biden just after that meeting. and then also with the timing is, of course, the issue of the midterm elections. poll after poll shows still that inflation, energy driven inflation is a huge story. gasoline prices. this is top of mind of american consumers. and, yes, we have come down from the national average peak in june at $5 a gallon. prices are starting to tick up. they re just under $3.90. this is a major concern. the other big issue, of course, beside the timing, is the optics of all of this. this was a show of force in the sense that we haven t seen opec gather in person in years since the covid-19 pandemic began. on top of that, the russian deputy prime minister who is the point person for opec, he is the face of russian energy policy was there in person.
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